[Discuss] Wide screen monitor

[David Bronaugh]

stanfish wrote:
> I wonder if anyone could point me to where I can get information 
> regarding altering my window to display in 1680X1050 pixels at 60 Hz. 
> This does not seem to be available in Mepis, or any other Linux 
> flavour that I have looked at.
> Thanks,
> Stan Fisher
OK, what video chip are you using?

Some Linux drivers *cough*old Intel*cough* used the BIOS for 
modesetting, which typically didn't include widescreen modes. So setting 
such modes would work in Windows (which didn't use the BIOS) but not in 
Linux (which did).

The new Intel driver -doesn't- have this problem; though others still 
do. If you have a chipset supported by one of these wonderful drivers, 
you might have to use a hack to work around this, such as overwriting a 
mode in the VESA mode table. More on this later, if it turns out this is 
what you need.

David